Pulse XT60 RCGF-USA 20cc Flight Ready

Took the Pulse XT60 out to the garage, put her wing on and checked the controls. Realized the ailerons were on a Y, changed it to separate channels since it has them, and setup flaperons because I could. No mix yet, will see how she behaves first.

First start took forever. She was lean and dry. Tried my 12V starter, and burned it out while melting the plastic on the spinner. Oops... Have another Hangar 9 Pro 12V starter coming from Amazon Prime. This one was over 5 yrs old.

Took a long time to get the carb fuel. This being her break-in tank, i ran her at half throttles and less, occasionally WOT, setting the needles just to get her to run. By half tank (30 min) she wanted more. It was neat seeing her performance improve as time passed bd I ajusted her tuning. She would quit, take forever to restart, but each time less and less quits and shorter restarts with less need for choke. By the end found a decent idle, powerful WOT.  Full tank gave more than an hour! 15x6 Zoar.

Pretty much ready to go. Throttle in 1.2 sec arc speed to allow a nice gentle transition. She shook her pants off, literally... The idle keeps getting better.

  

Got back in the shop, cut the cowl in. The holes were already drilled and were off... In the end decided it was better to try to keep the holes and instead modify the front opening, as the holes were off just enough to mess up the cowl if re-drilled. Ended up modifying two top holes slighlty, still.  Final adjustments and everything clears.

Cut in nicely.

Sweet!

Using a larger cone spinner worked out to cover up the large oblong front  opening.

Actually worked out, not perfect but pretty nice.

Howard.

Will need to check CG again. And then maiden!

Got her wheel pants back on. The screws were wood, needed bolts, replaced in reinstall, will post a pic later.